Hi,
I would like to know little more details on how LV stripe is spreadout on available devices in a VG.
I have created a logical volume and the lvdisplay -v -m output is shown below. From this out put no information about the stripes spread out. it is giving column information but it is not giving where each stripe lies.
Look at the lvdisplay output below. I have created VG with default PE size of 4 MB and then created striped LV of stripe width 4 KB.
root:~ # lvdisplay -v -m /dev/vg1/lv1
Using logical volume(s) on command line
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg1/lv1
VG Name vg1
LV UUID wIwIAU-Lq8J-Cva9-0eyb-fECN-h5TS-nrMUMu
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 1008.00 MB
Current LE 252
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:7
Using logical volume(s) on command line
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg1/lv1
VG Name vg1
LV UUID wIwIAU-Lq8J-Cva9-0eyb-fECN-h5TS-nrMUMu
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 1008.00 MB
Current LE 252
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:7
--- Segments ---
Logical extent 0 to 251:
Type striped
Stripes 3
Stripe size 4 KB
Stripe 0:
Physical volume /dev/sdm
Physical extents 0 to 83
Stripe 1:
Physical volume /dev/sdl
Physical extents 0 to 83
Stripe 2:
Physical volume /dev/sdk
Physical extents 0 to 83
Logical extent 0 to 251:
Type striped
Stripes 3
Stripe size 4 KB
Stripe 0:
Physical volume /dev/sdm
Physical extents 0 to 83
Stripe 1:
Physical volume /dev/sdl
Physical extents 0 to 83
Stripe 2:
Physical volume /dev/sdk
Physical extents 0 to 83
Here the stripe stripe width is 4 KB and there are 3 stripe columns. I would like to know how each stripe width is distributed. does it distributed round robin fashion among the devices or anything else? Above output gives only column information. Is there any command or an option I can use to get to know more on stripes spreadout?
For example, in above case, LE/PE size is 4 MB(look at the vgdisplay output shown below)
So my question is:
does the stripe spreads out as follow?
first 4 KB (stripe width) sits on /dev/sdm, PE 0 and next 4 KB on /dev/sdl andPE 0 and 3 rd stripe gets in to 0 th PE of /dev/sdk and then again this process repeates and start occypying 0 th PE of /dev/sdm and so on. When it finishes with 0 th PE (4 MB) of each device, then corresponding stripe occupies .
Following is a representation of above statement:
stripe-1 PE: 0 /dev/sdm
stripe-2 PE:0 /dev/sdl
stripe-3 PE:0 /dev/sdk
stripe-4 PE:0 /dev/sdm
stripe-5 PE:0 /dev/sdl
;
;
stripe-xx PE:1 /dev/sdm
stripe-xx+1 PE:1 /dev/sdl
stripe-XX+2 PE:1 /dev/sdk
stripe-xx+3 PE:1 /dev/sdm
OR
First few sets of 4 KB stripes (i.e PE size/ stripe width) occupies /dev/sdm and next set of stripes /dev/sdl and then /dev/sdk and comes back to /dev/sdm. i.e it continuously writes so many stripes to align to PE size.
Following is a representation of above statement:
stripe-1 PE:0 /dev/sdm
stripe-2 PE:0 /dev/sdm
;
stripe-x PE:0 /dev/sdm
stripe-x+1 PE:0 /dev/sdl
stripe-X+2 PE:0 /dev/sdl
;
;
stripe-y PE:0 /dev/sdl
stripe-y+1 PE:0 /dev/sdk
;
stripe-z PE:0 /dev/sdk
stripe-z+1 PE:1 /dev/sdm (repeates with physical extent of each device)
stripe-Z+2 PE:1 /dev/sdm
;
;
i.e stripes are going to occupy on the device until at least 1 PE is fulll before mnoving to next device.
OR
Does it something different from both of these. If so how to identify where exactly particular stripe of data lies on which disk of the VG. Is there any command or metadata dump or debug info where I can get those information?
Please let me know. Thanks for your time.
Thanks,
Gopal.
====================vgdisplay output====
spea64:~ # vgdisplay -v /dev/vg1
Using volume group(s) on command line
Finding volume group "vg1"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg1
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 4
Metadata Sequence No 8
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
VG Size 1.94 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 496
Alloc PE / Size 252 / 1008.00 MB
Free PE / Size 244 / 976.00 MB
VG UUID dp2pO1-qqNQ-BRrM-jrZ8-zkbo-y7OF-CgS5eo
Using volume group(s) on command line
Finding volume group "vg1"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg1
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 4
Metadata Sequence No 8
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
VG Size 1.94 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 496
Alloc PE / Size 252 / 1008.00 MB
Free PE / Size 244 / 976.00 MB
VG UUID dp2pO1-qqNQ-BRrM-jrZ8-zkbo-y7OF-CgS5eo
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